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map sustain(Kirac) so you can actually progress your Atlas.
It's important to note that Kirac missions don't get any benefit from your atlas passives, so you may want to focus on non-Kirac map sustain instead.
 

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map sustain(Kirac) so you can actually progress your Atlas.
It's important to note that Kirac missions don't get any benefit from your atlas passives, so you may want to focus on non-Kirac map sustain instead.
Yes, I know. It's a fucking shame. But you still get the completion bonuses for maps you complete through Kirac, which is why Zana was so good for filling out your completions early on. It's also where you'll probably get your first Ascendancy Trial from.
 

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map sustain(Kirac) so you can actually progress your Atlas.
It's important to note that Kirac missions don't get any benefit from your atlas passives, so you may want to focus on non-Kirac map sustain instead.
Yes, I know. It's a fucking shame. But you still get the completion bonuses for maps you complete through Kirac, which is why Zana was so good for filling out your completions early on. It's also where you'll probably get your first Ascendancy Trial from.
True. So I guess it's good to invest in things that give Kirac missions, but probably not too much in things that make Kirac missions better, like the stronger scouting reports.
 

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You might wanna check out Absolution. It's thematically close and looking to be very strong this league.

Interesting idea, thanks. I was thinking of Dominating Blow as the other minion skill, actually. Absolution does look quite a bit stronger this league, but how do you compare 9+3+1 Domination vs 3 Absolution sentinels in terms of damage?
 

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I don't have experience with Absolution and only some experience with DomBlow, but from what I understand:

- the Absolution Skill itself deals much more damage than DomBlow
- the Sentinels of Absolution have much more damage and can cast the skill itself and since it's a ranged spell, they have better DPS uptime
- it's much faster to ramp with only 3 vs 13 total minions
- you don't have to be in melee range to resummon
- DomBlow minions body block eachother and have much worse DPS uptime as a result
 

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You might wanna check out Absolution. It's thematically close and looking to be very strong this league.

Interesting idea, thanks. I was thinking of Dominating Blow as the other minion skill, actually. Absolution does look quite a bit stronger this league, but how do you compare 9+3+1 Domination vs 3 Absolution sentinels in terms of damage?

Absolution sentinels was really weak damage wise but they really buffed it(both the skill damage and sentinels) and it's pretty viable for clearing and bossing. It also scales better than Dom Blow and safer to play.
 

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You might wanna check out Absolution. It's thematically close and looking to be very strong this league.

Interesting idea, thanks. I was thinking of Dominating Blow as the other minion skill, actually. Absolution does look quite a bit stronger this league, but how do you compare 9+3+1 Domination vs 3 Absolution sentinels in terms of damage?
I did a domblow guardian a few leagues back. It's amazing for regular maps as long as you keep moving, but whenever you are forced to stand still it's painful to get all the minions up and running again. Kinda bad for most bosses, it just takes too long to ramp up, and you're not going to get any rare auras dominated that way.

Haven't played absolution though, so can't compare with that.
 

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this is the big tech for re-summoning your Sentinels, but it's unreliable to find in SSF unless you're using Ancient Orbs on flasks.
 

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this is the big tech for re-summoning your Sentinels, but it's unreliable to find in SSF unless you're using Ancient Orbs on flasks.
Ancient orbs are pretty rare in SSF in my experience. In trade this is a pretty cheap flask iirc, so if you slot 2 of them you can probably have really smooth bossing.
- DomBlow minions body block eachother and have much worse DPS uptime as a result
I don't recall this being a problem for me in practice. Most tough enemies are big enough to have surface area for 10+ minions. And iirc the dom blow minions have some aoe shield charge ability that ignores pathing.
 

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Kinda bad for most bosses, it just takes too long to ramp up, and you're not going to get any rare auras dominated that way.

This seems to be the key insight here. I'll go with Absolution and see if it works well...
 

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this is the big tech for re-summoning your Sentinels, but it's unreliable to find in SSF unless you're using Ancient Orbs on flasks.
Unless you play the game 2hrs a week, you're gonna find one sooner or later. It's not exactly a rare unique.
 

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I play a lot and I find 1-2 per league. During my Headhunter grind this past league I found more, but it was still the least common flask after Taste of Hate for me.
 

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this is the big tech for re-summoning your Sentinels, but it's unreliable to find in SSF unless you're using Ancient Orbs on flasks.
Unless you play the game 2hrs a week, you're gonna find one sooner or later. It's not exactly a rare unique.
I have found it once or twice in my "career", so yeah, it's not super rare. But it's also not one of the common ones I find every league (or the super common ones you sometimes get multiples of in the same map).
 

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I guess I'll have to do 38/40 this league instead of the usual 36. But that will make the totem look ugly, so I'll actually have to do 40/40 :argh:
 

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Having pretty good luck so far this league, found tabula in the prison. The league mechanic seems kinda half arsed, but at least the rewards are nice.
 

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Picked random red map, it turned into Burial Chamber. Oh god...
I was so disgusted this shit is back in the menu happy to see familiar map I forgot to vaal it and have to run every red map now.
Oh well, at least I can run Maven, her invitations gives points too.

Harbinger sux, not a single valuable shart in T16s. Chance to turns engineering/chaos/alch shart into orb? gimme a break, chris
Map drops are good too, seeing T14+ double drops in hardly juiced map run is plain disgusting.
 

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Does all characters have voice lines now above act 5 or just duelist ? I noticed in patch notes that duelist is supposed to get new voice lines above act 5 so i wonder if they added more for rest of characters before ?
 

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Does all characters have voice lines now above act 5 or just duelist ? I noticed in patch notes that duelist is supposed to get new voice lines above act 5 so i wonder if they added more for rest of characters before ?
Templar got them in 3.15.
 

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I slept. Didn't die of an embolism. Time to break into red maps. I set my hideout music to the track that plays in the new epilogue. It's ominous and makes me wanna progress the atlas storyline.
 

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